Talk:Great Ireland

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”Irland it mikla” does not realy look like Old Norse to me. I thought the Old Norse word for ”the” was ”hin”. Anyone who happend ti know?

2007-01-03 Lena Synnerholm, Mästa, Sweden.

I think it looks Irish to me, not Germanic and certainly not Old Norse Rabakam 08:55, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

“Irland” is the Swedish word for Ireland so that word is definitely Germanic. However, the island might not necessarily be called so in Old Norse. The word for Ireland in Celtic languages is probably similar to the Irish name Éire. “Mikla” IS the Old Norse word for “great” or “big” such as in “Miklagård”. It means “the big city” and was the Old Norse name for present-day Istanbul. It was the only the word “it” which sounded wrong to me.

2007-01-29 Lena Synnerholm, Märsta, Sweden.

[edit] Nova Scotia

2007-04-27 Dave Ross, Fairbanks Alaska: Why could this not even be Nova Scotia? There has always been a history of Gaelic-speakers (mostly Erse, of course) on the Island, and is close to the possible Vinland?

I don't think Irlanders reached North America before the Icelanders. Even if they did they would not have been able to etablish a long-lived colony. The Icelandic colony of Vinland was abadored after only ten years because they could not defend it against the local tribepeoples. You are probably expolating to far.

2007-06-05 Lena Synnerholm, Märsta, Sweden.